It rains

Ya know, I really like rain. I took the dogs for a walk in the rain this evening. It was that or no walk! I love the way the city smells in the rain. Not exactly fresh but fresher, and Seuss appreciates the coolness. He hate the heat; too much fur has he! Americans, in general, stay out of the rain way too much. Like we're gonna melt or something!

Too diverse for a title

Let's see, my brother is home and feeling better. He had to go in for a blood test today and again on Thursday. He apparently had a *near death experience* which may well be the case as he won't talk about it. He's not big on sharing the important stuff unless he is drunk which is not the case. So, as much as I would really like to get the scoop, I'll wait until he is ready. Not that I haven't asked. He's just not talkin'. He is on five different medications. Not sure what they all do but one is a blood thinner.

On the garden front, I have finally made it down to the alley in my task of getting the ivy trimmed on the rock walls. Pruned a bunch of stuff and pulled some tenacious weedy vine. I did so not plant that!

I put myself back on sublingual B complex when I realized that the subtle symptoms of deficiency were coming back. This is not self medication. I had blood tests to prove it. Cause I would never have assumed I had a vitamin deficiency. This is 2006! Not 1900! Well, then it was something like 2002 but still.... The symptoms are so sneaky. Like I'm worried about everything and I have no memory and I'm just not right; just mildly sad in an all the time sucks up all one's energy kind of way. Everything annoys me, I can't cope with anything and it doesn't come up in the usual lists of symptoms but I feel sick. And my sleep patterns shift to where I don't sleep well and wake up tired. I actually woke up before my alarm went off today...and it goes off at 5 am.

There isn't anything really important in this post. I'm just feeling grateful for health and sleep and joy.